Sun, May 24, 2020:  Day 65 of self-quarantine:  Buzzed Mike’s hair this morning and then sat out on the deck to read.  The birds must roost at night in the tree right over the chaise, because it’s got a lot of crap on it.  Need a new pad anyway.  Was looking forward to watching Tiger play golf—some charity thing.  It’s going on for 5 hours!  Raining like mad when I turned it on, so set up a recording and went back to my book.  Getting ready to play spades for a while.  Looks like it’s about to rain here.  Not sure if Nomad will join me or not.  Upper 70s today.  Think we’ll finally finished off the goulash tonight.

This is what our family room looked like when a kid drove through our foundation a few years ago.  They've already started boarding it up.  That's a big chunk of concrete at the bottom of the picture.  And our entertainment center almost hit the piano.

This is what it looks like now.

Sat, May 23, 2020:  Day 64 of self-quarantine:  Was working my crossword this morning

and heard this racket outside.  Car horns honking, sirens blaring.  Thought maybe it was a graduation thing.  But we have no kids that age here.  Turns out, our neighbor, Sal, is a veteran of the Korean war.  The Angel Flight he was supposed to travel to Washington on was cancelled, so they did this tribute to him.  Long lines of vintage cars all decorated, police cars with lights flashing and sirens going.  What a nice tribute.  I donned my mask and went out to the crowd that was forming.  Sal’s kids, cousins, brother, and some neighbors were there.  His wife, Sally, is 91.  He’s pushing 90 (but you’d never know it).  And I was the only one wearing a mask.  What is with these people?  Don’t Sal and Sally’s kids know they could be putting them at risk BY NOT WEARING A MASK?  Unbelievable.  I wanted to smack them all.  Anyway, that was the most exciting thing that has happened around here in the past two months. 

Fri, May 22, 2020:  Day 63 of self-quarantine:  After breakfast we did another on-line grocery order with Aldi.  Delivered in 2 hours!  Got some great steaks.  Mike’s happy.  Played spades.  Finished season two of “Dead to Me.”  Can’t wait for season three.  70s today.

Catalina Island

Thu, May 21, 2020:  Day 62 of self-quarantine:  Submitted a grocery order this morning.  Delivered in two hours.  Another gloomy day, but that’s about to change.  Into the 80s for the next few days.  Can’t believe Memorial Day is coming up.  Mike is bumming because the Indy 500 is postponed.  I think it hit 70 today (sigh).

With David and Steve at Mattingly's before Covid.

Don't know when we'll get together with these guys again.

Wed, May 20, 2020:  Day 61 of self-quarantine:  Another gloomy, grey day.  Spent most of the day streaming the Netflix series “Dead to Me”--a dark comedy.  A great series!  Hard to stop watching.  Anyway, came down to the office to play spades for a while before dinner.  Steaks, mashed potatoes and sugar snap peas for dinner tonight.  60s again today.

Mike's mother, Rita, used to make these miniature rooms.  The one we have is my favorite, the General Store.  She also used to paint these tiny paintings to hang in some of her rooms.  She was quite an artist.  Below is a picture of The General Store, and one of the paintings she created.

Picture didn't turn out that great because of the reflection on the glass.

This little painting she created is about 1" high and 2" wide.  Looks like it was done in acrylic.

Tue, May 19, 2020:  Day 60 of self-quarantine:  Dusted and Vacuumed today.  Our neighbor across from us called last night to inform us a package from CVS had been delivered to her.  The address was wrong.  Other than that, everything I ordered was good.  Mike went over to get it because I was in a spades game at the time.  Don’t know if I enteredBla the address wrong or if CVS did it.  A gray and dismal day today.  60s.  Left-overs or pizza for dinner tonight.  Not sure yet.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison - Colorado

Mon, May 18, 2020:  Day 58 of self-quarantine:  Mike got up early.  I didn’t get up until 9:30. After lunch I wanted to drive to the bank to deposit the check from my insurance company and the car needed to be driven.  We actually got a rebate from our insurance company.  Guess they’re all doing that.  Mike went along for the ride.  A not too great day—spitting rain and in the low 60s.  Left-overs for dinner.  Playing spades for a while.  We are never really bored.  The days seem to fly by.

Curecanti Cruise--Colorado